Achieving Potential – Brian, Michelle, Jo and Steve…
The potential of Brian, Michelle, Jo and Steve…
The definition of ‘potential’ relates to either science or human. For Brian, he might be talking about things like energy and mass, however if you are talking to Michelle, Jo or Steve they might be talking more human potential.
Actually ‘human potential’ also has everything to do with Brian, as he is now a Physics Professor at Manchester University and part of The Large Hadron Collider project in Switzerland working out things like what happened when the Universe was formed a few billion years. So how was it that a local lad from near Oldham, who got a D in his Maths A Level, achieve so much in science? Ironically, maybe it had something to do with a band he was in called ‘D Ream’.
Then there is Michelle who grew up in a tough part of Glasgow and went onto be one of the UK’s top entrepreneurs. When Michelle left school at 15, what would people have said her potential was?
And what about Jo? It is true Jo did go to University and wrote some of the most successful books ever written. Not only this, these books were made into films grossing $8 billion. The thing is when Jo wrote her first book she was a single mum, unemployed and living in a council flat. If you were being honest, what would most people say Jo's future was?
And then there is Steve. Back in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, a little known Brit athlete by the name of Steve won an Olympic Gold. Then in 1988, 1992, 1996 and finally in the 2000 Sydney games he won his 5th Gold, making Steve the only endurance athlete to ever win gold in 5 different games. Not bad for a guy who left school with a Woodwork O Level in a sport dominated by university graduates.
So what is achieving your potential really about? I am not saying education or talent doesn’t count because it really does help but more importantly it is how much you want to achieve your potential that matters. Just ask Professor Brian Cox OBE, Michelle Mone OBE, JK Rowling OBE or Sir Steve Redgrave. These four people achieved their potential through extraordinary dedication; that is the real difference and it is this dedication that should be the thing that inspires us, not what they achieved in the end.
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